CVE-2004-1973

N/A Unknown

Published: April 27, 2004 Modified: April 16, 2026

Description

DiGi Web Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an HTTP GET request that contains a large number of / (slash) characters, which consumes resources when DiGi converts the slashes to \ (backslash) characters.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108311170018203&w=2

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/11490

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Apr/1009957.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=234261

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://www.autistici.org/fdonato/advisory/DiGiWwwServerC1-adv.txt

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.osvdb.org/5702

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10228

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit Patch Vendor Advisory

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15987

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108311170018203&w=2